Photo courtesy of Momentum Pictures.Ĭooper, you’re becoming the new “Scream King.” You were in They/Them, and now this movie. Jena Malone as Alice i n the horror/thriller/LGBTQIA+ film, SWALLOWED, a Momentum Pictures release. I know a lot of times, you might start in the middle or the end, so I think it was just a real education. We shot everything in chronological order, which was really helpful. You can love movies and watch movies, but you don’t know what to expect. What challenges did you experience making this film?Ĭolon: I think everything because you really don’t know what to expect. Walk me through the process as a first-time film actor. Like scary to do, so I was like, hell yeah, let’s do this. Then when this came through, I read it and loved it. I wanted to work with him for a while, and there had been things that we’d like almost come close to working on together, and then it didn’t happen. The script was really good, so I had to do it, you know?Ĭooper Koch (actor, Ben): I met Carter, I think, five or six years before I got the first script. Carter was working on something, and he told me about it, and I had already read the script. Jose Colon (actor, Dom): I needed the money … no, I’m kidding. Jose and Cooper, what attracted you both to this project? This, from the beginning, was written and created as a film that could be made with a little handful of friends, with the resources that we had. You spend a lot of time developing and waiting and trying to get projects off the ground. I hadn’t made a film in this micro-budget way before, and I had always been curious about it. Photo courtesy of Momentum Pictures.ĭigital Trends: Carter, what compelled you to make this movie?Ĭarter Smith (director): You know, more than anything, it was just the idea that it was possible to make a film that could be made without having to wait for permission from a studio or an investor or a key piece of casting. Mark Patton as Rich and Cooper Koch as Benjamin i n the horror/thriller/LGBTQIA+ film, SWALLOWED, a Momentum Pictures release. In an interview with Digital Trends, Colon, Koch, and Smith discuss the challenges of making a film in a remote location and what Swallowedadds to the horror genre. Alice and Ben bring Dom to a remote cabin in the woods to extract the remaining drugs, but they struggle to make any leeway as Dom experiences a trip from hell. They are special insects whose bites make you high and aroused. These are not your run-of-the-mill drugs. When the boys meet with drug dealer Alice ( Goliath’s Jena Malone), they are forced to swallow the drugs in condoms and smuggle them across the border.īefore Dom can use the bathroom to force the drugs out, he’s punched in the stomach, breaking one of the condoms and releasing the drugs inside his body. Dom persuades Benjamin to join him on a drug run to make some extra money. Two friends - Ben ( They/Them’s Cooper Koch) and Dom (introducing Jose Colon) - decide to spice things up for their last night together in Maine. Swallowed, the new horror from writer/director Carter Smith ( The Passenger), is not for the faint of heart.
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